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FXDJ

About Me

-Synopsis-
FXDJ initialy come from is name Francois-Xavier Désy Jourdain. He's from a small town in the province of Québec in Canada. New at electronic music writing from is debut in 2008, his recent composing may illustrate how far he was from this genre until now;. Born from a mother who's teaching music and a father playing with numerous band starting in the 60's until now, FX got inspired in many ways in is life; From jazz, folk, classical, to rock, progressive and metal bands. Starting at the age of approx. 15 y.o in a punk-rock, hardcore-punk mood, being a crew member and playing guitar alongside for couple bands too, FX got firstly introduced at electronic/house/lounge music from movies and also as partying with friends. Is interests evolved since he heard from great DJ'S like Armin Van Buuren, Tiësto, Paul Van Dyk, Slinky, (...)
-About friends-
Hi! It is always a pleasure to make new friendships here. One thing about me is that I don't invite people here only to get more visibility, I do it because I like the music. I like many styles and genres so inviting me as a friend will only make me discover new musicians and contributing maybe to make it listen to my friends and other people.You can add me even if you'r not musicians, artist, painter or whatever else... Thanks!!!
-Some low-cost (or not) material I'm using for electronic or not-
FL Studio XXL Producer Edition
Audition3
Ableton Live
UMX USB controler
Behringer Midi USB Controler
Sony amplifiers
Harman-Kardon amplifiers
Marantz Speakers
Peavy Amplifiers
Shure Microphones
Gibson guitars
Many virtual instruments like...
Spectrasonics Omnisphere & Stylus RMX
Nexus REFX
Morphine
Poizone
Other Steinberg products

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/10/2008
Band Members: Francois-Xavier Désy Jourdain
Influences: Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Cosmic Gate, Electronic and rock music from movies, Bérurier Noir, Ben Weasel & Screeching Weasel, hardcore & punk bands from the 80's & 90's. also, (random) William Ackerman, Jesse Cook, Leonard Cohen, Simon And Garfunkel, The Exploited, Subhumans(UK), Rancid, Operation Ivy, Assorted Jellybeans, Real Big Fish, Citizen Fish, The Cooties, Ten Foot Pole, S.N.F.U., Snuff, Good Riddance, Pennywise, NOFX, 311, Iron Maiden, Face To Face, Sepultura, Bad Brains, Cypress Hill, L7, Bob Marley, Grim Skunk, Guano, B.A.R.F., Voivod, Les Rats, Ludwig Von 88, Unwritten Law, Crass, Nirvana, The Offspring, No Use For A Name, The Beach Boys, The Ventures, Angelo Badalamenti, Miles Davis, Echo And The Bunnymen, S.c.u.m.(MTL), Metallica, etc...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Derrière l'État Desmarais : Power

Un sacré bon livre à lire si tu es Québecois, et une bonne facon de savoir a quel point on se fait entuber, nous les Francophones du Canada...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:05:00 GMT

Great people from Danemark!

This week-end, I have meet some guys from Danemark coming to visit and play Traditional music in Québec. Some of them play in a band call ZAR and you may find them on myspace on "zarmusic". Even if i ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:11:00 GMT

Almost lost my job, mean more music i guest!

 I'm lucky to say that i almost lose my job, yeah just almost!   The economic crisis is real here in Quebec and Canada and is taking over my job who depends from the wood industry and the value of the...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:45:00 GMT

thanks for listening me

I'm always asking myself if I should or not put my electronic music here; It as been many years from my debut in "organic" music. From the last year, i've try to make something new, in an other way, "...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Transposing images into sounds...

One of the sounds in Sabaiidi Girl was made with a BeepMap vst. I really like this imaginative way of composing something unusual like this. The only thing was to put a picture into this "converter/ t...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:11:00 GMT

My complexity

( i don't usually speak english so, i'm sorry for the mistakes...) My songs get inspired by the way I live, from the feelings I feel, from the people i know and also by the situation i am living...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:53:00 GMT